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Republican Judge Dawn Gentry, of the Kenton County Family Court, faces nine misconduct-related charges for allegedly making inappropriate sexual advances, trading jobs for donations to her campaign, using a legal panel for campaign work, retaliating against employees and attorneys, keeping false time sheets, and allowing guitars to be played in the office and her employees to consume alcohol.

One member of the panel, Katherine Schulz, reportedly quit after Gentry flirted with her through Snapchat, and asked her if she would have sex with Gentry's husband. Gentry also allegedly asked Schulz to join group sex with Stephen Penrose, Gentry’s former church pastor and current case specialist. According to Schulz, when she didn’t comply with Gentry’s request, she began to feel ostracized and eventually resigned.

Attorney Mike Hummel, who was also on the panel, said Gentry dismissed him because he didn't donate enough money to her reelection campaign. The judge also reportedly retaliated against Kelly Blevins, a school liaison officer who supported Gentry's opponent during the 2018 election. Gentry is also accused of having a sexual relationship with Penrose, which led to her hiring him. The two allegedly played in a band together and also had sexual relations with Gentry's secretary, Laura Aubrey, while at work.

Gentry faces a disciplinary hearing, but a date has not been set.

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Jeff Hardcastle, 51, has been sentenced to nine years behind bars for the unprovoked and brutal assault, which knocked the youngest boy off his feet. In the disturbing CCTV footage, the two youngsters were in the video games section when Hardcastle launched his attack. After he hit the first child (11), he marched up to the 5-year-old and smacked him in the face, sending him flying across the aisle. A passer-by ran to the child and grabbed him by one arm and one leg and pulled him away from his attacker.

Officers suspect Hardcastle was on drugs by the way he was behaving. The video showed him wandering erratically up and down the aisles. Police were able to corner him behind an electric box outside the store.

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Lipano and his five friends, including his brother Frank Togia, were in the hotel lift just before 3am on June 30 when the two victims entered. A simple request by Togia for some of the food they were carrying was behind the bloody assault by Togia and Lipano. Togia begins by pushing one man against the wall while Lipano throws a punch and then continues to beat the two men standing in the corner.

After two-minutes of this, the doors open and Lipano’s friends drag him out of the lift, but he runs back in and continues to throw punches, before hurling the food at the two victims. When it all seems to be over Lipano enters the lift for a third time and throws one last punch. The assault continued when police arrived to arrest the men, according to the Daily Telegraph.

When officers tried to subdue Lipano he kicked out at the arresting officers, yelling ‘f*** the police, f*** the system’ according to facts tendered during court proceedings. Lipano pleaded guilty to charges of affray, two counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and resisting an officer in the line of duty.

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He’s been sentenced to three years behind bars, with a non-parole period of 19 months. The non-parole period was reduced because of drug issues, anger issues, and low intelligence.

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Murder became a form of messaging, a spectacle of sadism — bodies hanging from bridges, chopped in pieces, deposited in public plazas, each grisly crime scene a warning, a way of saying the cartel’s violence knew no limits.

As the drug market churned, with new players rising and falling, training camps became academies for the industry’s enforcers. The sicario saw an opportunity. For six months, he lived in austerity with dozens of other men in the mountains of southern Mexico, he said, through terror, starvation and cold. Everywhere the specter of death.

They hunted and killed rival cartel members, and were killed themselves, often by their own trainers who disposed of them for disobeying orders or showing hesitation, he said. Trainees who ran afoul of the instructors were strung up from trees and used for target practice, he recalled — a claim that experts on cartels found plausible.

Knowing he might die for failing to follow orders — whether killing a farmer, cutting up a body or torturing a friend — was all the incentive he needed to do the unthinkable. At least that’s how he justified it. "They turned me into an animal,” he said. But behind every decision, every inhuman act, was a truth he could not escape. He chose this life. It was what he wanted.

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